Emirates Airline To Resume Services To Nigeria

Emirates Airline announced that they will resume services to Nigeria on October 1. The airline will operate a daily service between Lagos and Dubai using a Boeing 777-300ER. The Boeing 777-300ER serving Lagos will feature 8 First Class suites, 42 Business Class seats, and 304 seats in Economy Class.

Emirates mentioned in its statement that the UAE and Nigeria have built strong bilateral trade relations over the years. With the restart of daily passenger flights, Emirates SkyCargo will further enhance the trade relationship by offering more than 300 tonnes of bellyhold cargo capacity in and out of Lagos every week. The airline’s cargo arm is expected to support Nigerian businesses by exporting their goods via its state-of-the-art hub in Dubai to major markets including the UAE, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Bahrain. Emirates SkyCargo will also import important goods such as pharmaceuticals and electronics, as well as general cargo, from significant markets.

We’re back Nigeria! We’ll be resuming services to Lagos from 1 October 2024, and we can’t wait to offer unrivalled connectivity to Dubai and beyond to over 140 cities. https://t.co/EXGK0g1CnA pic.twitter.com/0AWJpWbBah

— Emirates (@emirates) May 16, 2024

"The Lagos-Dubai service has traditionally been popular with customers in Nigeria and we hope to reconnect leisure and business travellers to Dubai and onwards to our network of over 140 destinations," said Adnan Kazim, Emirates’ Deputy President and Chief Commercial Officer. With the expansion, Emirates operates to 19 gateways in Africa, with 157 flights per week from Dubai.